Posts from the “Weight Loss” Category

Something Prowling This Way Comes

Chris Moore

Posted on July 11th, 2012

The training was pretty routine. A quick warm-up to stimulate the flesh. Repeated attempts at lifting heavy loads as quickly as possible. A progressive attitude where you try and do just a little bit better than you did the last time around. If you’re not careful, this sort of activity will whip that flesh into fighting shape. It will make you stronger. But that’s not quite enough, is it? No, folks like us, we require further refinement. We need to gnash ourselves against something really hard. We need conditioning. At least it always seems like a damn fine idea before you start, doesn’t it? The question always comes with good and honest motive. “So, what do you want to do for conditioning?” You’re not…

Art of the Cheat Meal

Chris Moore

Posted on July 9th, 2012

Here’s a quick question. What can be learned from Pete Townsend’s famously bad hearing and my auditory experience from a completely awesome, completely ear shattering AC/DC concert? Oh, there’s a lesson. There’s always a lesson. If you are at all familiar with The Who, you’ll know that Pete the guitar player is rather famous for his noise induced hearing loss. As it happens, standing in front of amplifiers and pounding drum solo’s for the better part of 40 or 50 years is really, really bad for your ears. The loss is the cumulative effect of a chronic stimulus. Now, fast forward to just a few years ago when I checked a major item of my life list…seeing AC/DC live in concert. As you would…

The Crossfit Experiment: The 15/15 plan

Chris Moore

Posted on June 25th, 2012

This is the 3rd or 4th installment in this experiment series. Who knows, really. I’m losing track of the time. My brain is muddled with several months worth of AMRAP’s and all the other buzzword terms that come with Crossfit culture. Let’s just say that there’s been plenty of time now to see some results and make some key observations. Here is the most obvious lesson so far. If you are new to training, Crossfit will make you much stronger, fitter, mobile, leaner, sexier, and generally feistier. That’s basically everything you want to be. The same is likely true if you have some training experience. The intensity alone will most likely bust any stagnation you’re experiencing. And yes, I know the workouts seem easy…

Too Fat To Lift

Chris Moore

Posted on September 21st, 2011

I could not, for the life of me, take my eyes off the man. The guy was like a train wreck, a cataclysm and a sunrise all rolled up into one big, disturbing—yet somehow beautiful—package. Picture in your mind, dear reader, a walking, talking kielbasa sausage at a national-level powerlifting meet. Four hundred pounds of man shoved into a 350-lb. bag. He could not have gone unnoticed: the guy was wearing the brightest yellow shirt you ever saw. He wasn’t there to compete, but you could tell he was a lifter. Heavily muscled upper back. A corkscrew splattering of busted blood vessels along his neckline—a sure sign of more than a few max-effort attempts. Enlarged, coarsely calloused hands. He carried himself with an expected…

Fat and Back Again: Diary of a Former Super Heavy

Chris Moore

Posted on September 21st, 2011

“Chris? Oh, you mean the big fat guy?” Looking back, I wasn’t insulted. That guy had no idea. I wasn’t fat. I…was…huge. Six foot tall, 370 lbs. “Could a fat guy squat nearly a grand?” I thought. “Do 75 push-ups without cracking a sweat?” As it turns out, yeah. The truth is, I was a fat guy. Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t like I was Orca whale fat. No, no. I was somewhere on the continuum between bodybuilder and Dom Deluise—a whole lot of muscle under a thick mantle of insulation. In a given light after a beer or two or three, seen in my customary and strategically selected baggy shirt, you would definitely say to yourself, “Hey, this is a big dude.”…